Precursors to language in preterm infants. Speech perception abilities in the first year of life.

Progress in Brain Research

Volumn 189, Issue , 2011, Pages 239-257

  Bosch, Laura ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Language discrimination; Pre lexical; Preterm; Speech perception; Word segmentation

Indexed keywords

BOOK; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; COGNITIVE DEFECT; COMMUNICATION SKILL; HEARING; HUMAN; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PREMATURITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 79953868422     PISSN: 00796123     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-444-53884-0.00028-2     Document Type: Chapter

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